Replacing unquoted words only in Python

Question

I am looking for a way to replace a word, however only when its not surounded by quotations.

For example Replacing Hello with Hi

Answer 1

This works for your test case.

import re
foo = "Hello 'Hello' Nothing"
mt = re.search(r"[^']Hello(\s+.*)", foo)
if mt:
   foo = 'Hi' + match.group(1)